1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

Edited By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien Copyright 2018
    516 Pages
    by Routledge

    516 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.

    Acknowledgments

    List of Contributors

    Introduction

    LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL AND DONNA LEE BRIEN

    SECTION I. CONSUMING BODIES: GENDER, HUNGER, AND THE SENSES

    1 "New Motions of the Flesh": Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel

    KEVIN BOURQUE

    2 Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany

    CARINA HART

    3 "Jaded Appetite" and "Perverted Taste": The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics

    SARAH FRÜHWIRTH

    4 Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature

    LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL

    5 Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism

    SARAH CLEARY

    6 Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s

    KERRY MYLER

    7 Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature

    EMERALD L. KING

    8 Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation

    JERI KROLL AND JEN WEBB

    9 The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility

    RITA MOOKERJEE

    10 Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others and Limits of Language

    PAUL MOUNTFORT

    SECTION II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES

    11 "101 in the Shade": Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830s–1910

    NICOLA ANAE

    12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Colonial Australian Literature

    CHARMAINE O’BRIEN

    13 ‘The Uncultivated Taste’: Explorer’s Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth Century Australia

    BLAKE SINGLEY

    14 Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

    TRACY BERNO, LINDSAY NEILL, DALE THOMPSON, CHRISTINE HALL AND ALISON GRAVILLE

    15 Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives

    JENNIFER BROWN

    16 Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity and Migration

    HARRY KASHDAN

    17 Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature

    JENNI RAMONE

    18 Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean

    SARAH LAWSON WELSH

    19 Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels

    YAN LIANG

    20 Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir

    DONNA LEE BRIEN

    21 Food Metaphors in Parsi fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis

    PAROMITA DEB

    22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000-2016

    CHIENWEI PAN

    SECTION III. MEALS, FEASTING, AND COMMENSALITY

    23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the early Roman Empire

    GAIL PITTAWAY

    24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology

    COREY R.WALDEN

    25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

    BURÇIN EROL

    26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century Gawain and the Green Knight

    J.S. MACKLEY

    27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory

    FREDERIKA BAIN

    28 "The Elegances of the Breakfast-Table": The Encoded Space of the Breakfast-Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels

    ANN BEEBE

    29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature

    CAMERON DODWORTH

    30 Would you Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson

    SHELLEY INGRAM AND WILLOW G. MULLINS

    31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature

    BARBARA WYLLIE

    32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry and Songs from the Irish Tradition

    MÁIRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE

    33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction

    MARIA CHRISTOU

    SECTION IV. LITERARY FOOD GENRES

    34 The Bible and Food

    CYNTHIA SHAFER-ELLIOTT

    35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England

    SHAWNA GUENTHER

    36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects

    KIMO REDER

    37 Dinner Theater / Dinner Theatricality

    LIZ BLAKE

    38 M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs

    MAX FRAZIER

    39 Man-eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity

    ANGELICA MICHELIS

    40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text

    AMANDA EATON MCMENAMIN

    41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel

    ANNE-MARIE EVANS

    42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives

    MIHAELA PRECUP

    43 Reading the Food Blog as a ‘Culinary Autobiography’: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-centred Stories

    CARMEL CEDRO

    Index

    Biography



    Lorna Piatti-Farnell
    , PhD, is Director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

    Donna Lee Brien
    , PhD, is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, Australia.